Quote from Oladosun Joshua Segun on November 1, 2025, 6:34 AM

The case against Woody Harrelson is over. The 64-year-old actor revealed that he believes his work with former co-star Matthew McConaughey on the first season of the HBO anthology series ended properly, thus he would not want to reprise his role as True Detective.

“In fairness, never," when Dylan Dreyer asked Woody if he would do a sequel on Today on October 31, he replied. "No chance. Because it turned out great. I love that it turned out the way it did, and if anything, doing another season would, I think, tarnish that.”

Dylan brought up Matthew's earlier statement that "he would be into it if 'Woody and I think it is good enough,'" Woody merely said, "Matthew’s so funny."

However, the actor from How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days is not the only one who is interested in going back to work as a detective. The show is creator, Nic Pizzolatto, revealed back in May that he had a story idea that would let Woody and Matthew return to their respective roles as Marty Harty and Rust Cohle.

"I actually have another story for Cohle and Hart that, who knows, maybe we’ll do it one day," in May, Nic appeared on the Nothing Left Unspoken podcast. "It's character-based again.... But it's not something I've written or anything. It’s just [that] I had that in my head, and we've talked about getting back together and doing it. I think the guys are open to it. It's just a question of whether that would ever happen or not."

Woody and Matthew have a strong bond even if Woody does not want to go back to the True Detective set with Matthew. They were so close that in 2023, when Matthew's mother Mary McCabe disclosed that she had known Woody's father, the late convicted hitman Charles Harrelson, in the past, the two conjectured that they may be brothers.

"Where I start and where [Woody] ends, and where he starts and I end, has always been like a murky line," Matthew stated in a Let us Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa podcast broadcast from April 2023. "And that's part of our bromance, right? My kids call him Uncle Woody. His kids call me Uncle Matthew. And you see pictures of us and my family thinks a lot of pictures of him are me. His family thinks a lot of pictures of me are him."

He went on, "In Greece a few years ago, we're sitting around talking about how close we are and our families, and my mom is there, and she says, ‘Woody, I knew your dad.' Everyone was aware of the ellipses that my mom left after ‘knew.' It was a loaded K-N-E-W."

Woody acknowledged that it was questionable that Matthew's mother had temporarily split from Jim, the Interstellar actor's purported father, nine months prior to his birth. However, it appears that Matthew denied a DNA test, just as Woody did with a return to True Detective.

"For him, it's a much more big deal," in an April 2023 episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Wood made this statement. "I mean, he feels like he's losing a father. But I'm like, no you're gaining a different father and a brother."